St. Landry democrat., 1887-11-26

uiacturers and dealers on the subject of a
revision of the wool tariff William Law
renee, BellefOntaine, O.; Hon. John Nc
Dowell, Washington, Pa; Colonel E. A.
Sheppard, Marathon, Tex, president of the
Texas Wool Growers Association George
II. Wallace, Fayette, Mo, president of the
Missouri Wool Growers Association: and
George T. Converse Columbus, O.. 1t is ull-
derstoOd that the above committee will de-
mand restoration Of the duty on wool to
the figure which ruled before 1888.
In the Supreme Court of Utah, demurrer
to the complaint in the Mormon Church suits
was overruled. The church attorney then
filed an answer, setting forth that the church
holds no property, but that the trustee in
trust has it, The law Incorporating the
Church and Perpetual Emigration Society
is cited and it is asserted that the church was
owned by the Temple Block Tithing Office
and GordO House when the act Of 1862 was
passed After the passage of the law of 1887,
trustees were appointed by the Probate
Court on an application of the church. Be
tore that personal property had been trans
ferrcd to the different States.
Temperance Alliance has met in Nashville
and organized by clecting ex-Congressman
G. G. Dibrell president. The convention is
called to take action deemed appropriate in
view of the result of the recent election on
the prohibition amendment. Six hundred
delegates are in attendance.
Dr. William OGorman. one of the leading
surgeons Of the United States, has died in
Newark, n. j., aged sixty-three years. He
was born i'll Ireland and was graduated there,
but came to this country in 1919. He was
chief of the New Jersey medical staff during
the war. He had been president of the State
Medical Society and Of the EsseX-cOunty
Medical Society, and was called in consulta
ton when President Garfield was shot.
Colonel Lloyd J. Beale died recently in
Richmond, Va, aged eghty-one years. He
was native of Rhode Island, graduate of
West Point soldier Of the Black Hawk,
Florida and Mexican wars, and resigned his
position in the United States army to become
a soldier in the Confederate army.
A fire at Littleton n. H, destroyed Ea-
tons bobbing mill, Foggar's planning mill,
Struthers' stanchion factory, two store
houses and tenement, causing loss of
$4,000
A block of frame stores at Cimarron, Kan,
was burned recently. Loss, $4,000.
A factory building in Brooklyn, occupied
by George Herman 4 Sons and 1eaman
Brothers, has been burned. Loss, $4,000.
rhe steam dredge Cape Breton, while
being towed from Wallace to Pictou, Nova
Scotia. was sunk during a recent gale. Loss,
100000
In the American Public Health Assoca-
ton, at Memphis, recently, Dr. Ottersen, of
Brooklyn, introduced the following resOlu-
ton: THAT this association urge its members
to recommend their representatives in Con-
gress to further by all means in their power
additional appropriations for the mainte-
nance and equipment Of the United States
quarantine stations at Delaware Breakwater,
Cape Charles and the Gulf of Mexico, and
that legislation providing a penalty for the
violation of the United States quarantine
law is, in our opinion, an urgent necessity. Be
it resolved, further, that the surgeon general
of the Marine Hospital service be requested
to cause the detail of an additional officer to
serve in the bureau, to act as register Of vital
statistics, and that such statistics be made
part of the weekly abstracts" The resolu-
tons were referred.
An Associated Press dispatch from Wash
ington says that there is no longer any
doubt that during the first few days of the
coming session of Congress the President
will nominate Secretary Lamar to fill the
vacancy on the Supreme Bench caused by
the death of Justice Woods, and at the same
time Postmaster General Villas will be NOM
mated to succeed Mr.. Lamar as Secretary Cf
the Interior.
The President has approved parcel-post
with Barbados, to take eff
feet on December l. 1t provides that mer-
parcels not exceeding eleven pounds
in weight and dimensions, greatest length
in any direction three feet six inches, length
and girth combined six feet, may be trans
mitted in the mails between the two coun-
tries at the rate of twelve cents per pound or
fraction of a pound.
The main line of the Central Iowa railroad
has been sold at Marshalltown. 1t was bid
in by representatives of the Stickney reor-
yanization committee for S2 100000
The steamer Eutella, which reached New
York from ports in Southern Italy recently,
has been sent to the lower bay and will be
detained there until the authorities are salts
fed that she has no cholera on board. She
nas 222 passengers. The steamers Sidonian,
Olympia and Burgundia, which had been
luarantined, were released
A case of smallpox was recently discovered
n the Raymond-street Jail in Brooklyn.
The patient was taken to the hospital, the
all was thoroughly cleansed and disinfected,
md all the inmates, about 100 in number,
we're vaccinated.
The latest returns from Ohio indicate that
Foraker's plurality in the State will be 81
s16. The Legislature will stand: Senate, "a
Republicans. 10 Democrats and 2 doubtful;
he House, 81 Republicans, 43 Democrats
md doubtful.
The latest returns from Iowa indicate
plurality of 1880 for Larrabee, Repubh-
an, for governor.
The National Swine Breeders Association
net in Chicago recently. 1t was reported
hat the past year has been the most pros
,erous ever experienced in the history of the
organization, and that the losses from swine
diseases had been much smaller than usual